You're going to be happy!

Ok, so today I was finally motivated to put pictures on the computer by making this beautiful Veggie Pot Pie. I was making it, and couldn't find the easy pie crust stuff, so I made my own, and decided that if I was going to go to all that effort, I may as well lattice it too. So I did. The plan was that I was going to make this for tomorrow night's dinner, but after I took a picture of it, I just had to have a piece, and I must say - it is delicious! Some things I think are very lacking when I make a meatless version (Beef stroganoff for one), but this Veggie Pot Pie is just as good as any and better than many Chicken Pot pie's that I have eaten. Leftovers that I will eat! Yay!

Speaking of pies...
Yes it was my niece's pi birthday on January 5th. Janardan's idea, so of course we had to celebrate with pies. It was a lot of fun, and will probably get very carried away with each progressive kid in the family who turns 3.14159....

Ok, so here is a random hodgepodge of Christmas pictures. I probably should have more, like of finished products and stuff, but I don't. I will sometime have to take a picture of the finished product of my Creativity Project, and of Janardan's Christmas Gift to me. Hopefully sooner than the Wii pictures below the Christmas ones, but I make no promises.

This is a gift I wrapped for Emily. I wrapped all my presents this year with recycled paper.

The layout of the quilt I made for Janardan.

Our Christmas Tree!

Stockings: I really really like Janardans, and I wish mine looked a little more like a Pikmin, but it's cute anyway.

The Wii: A Picture Memoir

This is my dad's old tent. We rescued it from Grandma's house, and then found great use for it the night we were camping out for the Wii.

Here's the tent in the morning as we were taking it down.

At 8am we got our blue ticket that was our ticket to a Wii. We were seventh in line, and got to pick it up at 10am.

Here we are outside of Circuit City, holding our brand new Wii in our hands.

This is Janardan opening up the Wii. Yay!

Admiring the Wii, it is grand.

Playing Wii Sports at Emily the same night.

Ben boxing, and Janardan looking happy. :)

Forsake Waiting for Pictures

So I have just been too lazy to find my cord and upload pictures, so I have decided that it is not worth waiting.

Things should be pretty exciting around here, should be, but are not because I have been sick, and I am just now recovering. I am supposed to be preparing my house and my life for teaching English classes in my home. I am really excited about it, and looking forward to it, but my body has been very uncooperative. I was finally getting over my post-stress break, ready to put full steam ahead when I got sick, so I guess I'll just push preparations back a week. Again.

Being sick has given me the added advantage of watching two seasons of the Pretender in three days, maybe four, though. It is a great show. I wish there were more seasons, more intrigue, etc. Now my goal is to lend it out to everybody and get them hooked, so then there will be extended support for the third Pretender movie. (The first two don't come out on DVD for a month! What a saddness).

In other news, I think I am beginning to understand why Janardan has such an odd sleep schedule. Having nothing in particular that I need to do each day at any certain time has skewed my schedule a bit as well. It is odd. There is nothing to keep you from staying up late when you have nothing to get up for in the morning. And it's harder to motivate yourself to get things back on schedule as well. Before I got married, I felt that being sealed would help me understand him in ways that I couldn't, not being sealed. I have seen that happen time and time again. Yet there is still so much more progress to be made.

It is interesting how what you surround yourself influences your view on the world. I've been watching the Pretender, which has had a few episodes with purposeful illness-causing toward death and such things, and then there is Janardan being sick. My first thought when I was sick was that someone had done this to me, but then supposed that no one would really have a reason, so that was unlikely. My second fear is that I will never get better. I have a headache, and I've had it for a few days. What will happen if it never goes away? I suppose I need more exposure to healthy people, so that I can mentally believe in my health, and maintain the strength I need to take care of Janardan.

Being a wife is a full-time job.

Expeditions with the Wii

We have had serious expeditions with trying to get the Wii. I called tons of places last night, and almost none of them were selling last night, so we decided we would get up early this morning and try to get one. We went to K-mart, and we were the first ones there, but decided we would wait in the car until someone else got there that we needed to compete with to be in line. So shortly later another lady showed up, and so we were second in line, but it ended up they only had 1. So we did not get one, because we spent 5 minutes in the car, instead of in front of the door.

Then our journey continued as we went all about the Provo-Orem area, looking for any place that was likely to sell Wiis. Most were already spoken for, some did not even have any, and then there was one that was not supposed to be open today, Circuit City. So after we eliminated all the other options, we decided that we would go to Circuit City and camp out, so that tomorrow when it opens, we will be able to acquire our very own Wii.

So about 3 and 1/2 hours ago, we arrived at circuit city, and set up camp. We set up the tent (which we were fortunate to actually be able to set up because there was a random cart full of cinder blocks), and ate a few snacks, and then Janardan started to take a nap, holding our place in line while I came home to make us some real food. In 18 hours, the store opens, and we will be the proud owners of a Nintendo Wii. I forgot to take my camera earlier, so I will take it with me later, but there will be pictures forthcoming. Today I told Janardan that I have never seen so many tents in the front of stores before. Now I am one of them!

Update on Projects

So I got my sewing machine back from the service shop today, and figured out that I have no idea were th pedal is. I called my sister and asked her if she had it at her house, and searched every nook and cranny of my house, but it was nowhere to be found. I was really excited to make a new winter skirt with fabric that I had bought today, so I cut it out, and just started on it turning the side thingy to do my stitching. It was a long laborious process, but it yielded a nice skirt to wear to church tomorrow. (Also the shirt is purple, even though it looks black in the picture. I don't know why.

I also finally took close-up pictures of my project pieces, since getting them off of my sister's computer seems not likely to happen. I would put them in some kind of order, but I am lazy.
These will be the writing pieces, representing what each of the four civilizations used to write on.
This is the Chinese man.
This is the Mesopotamian man.
This is the Greek woman
This is the Egyptian man.
This is the wall of China
This is the Discus Thrower (Greek).
This is a terracotta chariot (Chinese)
This is a Ziggurat (Mesopotamian)
This is the Parthenon (Greek)
This is an Egyptian statue, which should be more visible once done with thread.
This is the pyramid.

I haven't hemmed my skirt yet, and will probably wait until I have a real sewing machine, but I still plan on wearing it to church tomorrow. I also have fabric to make one more skirt, but I will wait until I have a pedal to do that. Well that is all for now.

Ok, so facebook was being dumb, so I just uploaded them to TSC instead. So if you want to check them out, they are at TSC . They aren't arranged nicely into a very viewable format, so you just have to click through all the pictures to see them, and there aren't any thumbnails. Oh well, it will work for now, but hopefully I will be figuring out a way to get them into a more viewable format. That's them for now though.

PS my dress is so pretty. It looks especially good in the reception pictures.

Here are some wedding pictures:

Tossing the Bouquet

Eating and Cutting of the Cake

Already Supplied Decorations!

Our Own Additions for Decorations

Ok I am having problems uploading more pictures, so I will link to facebook, where I am putting all the pictures up, but I only have one album done, so I'll link when the second is done. This is just a teaser.

I am taking a history of Creativity Class. It is really cool. We have to do a creative project that has something to do with the things we have studied this semester, so I decided to do a wallhanging that is sort of like a meeting of the ancients, sharing their art, in the heavens. Above is the work that I have done so far. My sister barely has the internet, so I will wait til I am home to post close-ups. So til Then, bye kids.

How is it that the times that you are busiest are the times you find the time to waste your life away doing things like starting a blog? Really, I don't know. I don't have cute kids to show pictures of, I don't have cool projects to take pictures of (generally, on occasion I do). I don't want to be boring and do laundry lists as my sister complains about some people do (no mentioning names).

I'm stressed. Today is the 4th. I have to finish American Heritage by the 10th, and I am only almost halfway done with the course. Besides that I feel like I am just going from putting out one fire to another with my assignments for my other classes. I will be glad when October 10th is passed.

In other news, I love general conference. The irony being that my favorite talk was one that I didn't even go to! I think Elder Eyring's talk has changed my life, and hopefully moreso that of Janardan's. Life is good, even if it's stressful. I have a wonderful husband, a dirty home, and the love of God in my life.